Home again

Another trip over and a few more sea miles under the belt.

This one was one of the harder trips I've done with the wind and sea "on the nose" most of the way which meant lots of tacking and quite a bit of motoring. We did get a couple of days of favourable winds though and enjoyed some good sailing, especially round East Cape and from Whakatane to Tauranga.

The fishing was great all the way. We caught a couple of good sized Kingfish (see photo) half a dozen Tuna, three snapper and a Terakihi. The Kingfish and Tuna we caught on a line with a lure trailing behind the boat as we sailed and the snapper and Terakihi on a handline when we were at anchor.

While the winds weren't great, the weather was mostly fine and sunny and we only had rain (and heaps of it) for the last day coming into Tauranga. We made it just in time as the remnants of a tropical storm swept the North Island just as we were arriving with many Northland roads washed away.

Photo is the sunrise as we were coming up to Portland Island at the end of the Mahia Peninsula at the top of Hawke Bay.

After we arrived in Tauranga the new owners of the boat met us and took us back to their house where we stayed for a couple of nights before getting a rental car and driving down to Wellington and catching the ferry across to Picton last night.

There aren't any more trips immediately on the go so I guess I'll have to get used to living at home for a while and doing mundane things like mowing the lawn. I see the grass has had a growing spurt while I've been away.

Good to see you've joined the Bloggers Leigh. Sounds as though the girls are doing really well at school and with all their other activities. It fair wore me out just reading about them!

That's all for today.